Re: gcj libtool patches so far

[Albert Chin]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 09:39:22PM -0800, Per Bothner wrote:
> Albert Chin wrote:
> >>2002-03-11  Anthony Green  <address@hidden>
> >>
> >>    * libtool.m4 (AC_LIBTOOL_PROG_CC_C_O): Albert Chin's gcj fix.
> >>    (AC_LIBTOOL_PROG_COMPILER_PIC): Per Bothner's change for not
> >>    using -DPIC with gcj.
> > 
> > 
> > Ugh. I dislike Per's patch. Ideally, we should keep tag-specific
> > information outside of the macros. What's being done is a kludge.
> 
> I didn't claim it was anything but a kludge, as I wrote Match 1.
> 
>    My -DPIC change is of course a kludge.  Better would be to have some
>    langage-specific variable similar to ac_compile, such as
>    ac_lang_pic_flag.
> 
> However, I don't know enough about libtool workings to be comfortable
> implementing the correct solution.

Why don't we remove -DPIC totally? Libtool shouldn't "automatically"
be adding it. If a compiler/os combination needs it, it should be
added to $lt_prog_compiler_pic explicitly.

-- 
albert chin (address@hidden)